This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for ancient Orphism, collected in the recent edition by Alberto Bernabé. It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in …
"There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subject, since new evidence and divergent approaches have kept appearing regularly. This volume sheds light on the most relevant piece…
"The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together …
Masks of Dionysus
by Carpenter, Thomas H., Faraone, Christopher A.
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Masks of Dionysus
by Carpenter, Thomas H., Faraone, Christopher A.
fromMyth and poetics
Masks of Dionysus
by Carpenter, Thomas H., Faraone, Christopher A.
fromMyth and poetics
Masks of Dionysus
by Carpenter, Thomas H., Faraone, Christopher A.
fromMyth and poetics